Biopower and citizenship in Latin America. A reading from Foucault
Abstract
In this article, an analysis of Foucault’s discourse is carried out to understand the formalization of certain devices that have founded a grammar of domination, expressed in the relationships between power over bodies (Biopower) and the exercise of citizenship. Although the purpose is eminently theoretical, it is intended to achieve a factual approach to the Latin American case, in the understanding that the democracies of the region are beloved daughters of modernity and, in addition, of government schemes that privilege the figure of the citizen as a political actor and historical subject. Methodologically, a critical-hermeneutical analysis is carried out, from which it is a matter of making domination strategies visible and interpreting in Foucault’s theory, the discursive establishment of a new societal order, based on the narrative that relates power and citizenship. Study allows us to conclude that Foucaultian theoretical categories reveal power as a set of relations, always in tension, that, in times of change, there is always room to build new rules and regimes of existence.
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